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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Inquisitive Young Matchmaker
Enter Miss Emma Woodhouse!
...and Mr. Knightly, of course!
Emma is a charming young woman who believes herself perfectly capable of creating happy marriages for other people--even when her only proof of such a gift is a single lucky guess!
Trouble ensues as Emma attempts to re-match already happy people--and finds herself the object of more than one young man's affections in the process.
Emma soon realizes that she should not meddle with other people's happiness--because they are the ones who are best equipped to find their own happiness.
From Chapter 22 of Emma:
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
2 comments:
meh, Dickens is better...
(Tolkien + Lewis) > (Dickens + Austen)
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